LA POCATIERE, QUEBEC -- (Marketwired) -- 08/16/14 -- The Honourable Shelly Glover, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, today announced $54,278 in funding to help the Musee Francois-Pilote carry out three separate projects.
The Musee Francois-Pilote, named after the founder of Canada's first permanent school of agriculture in La Pocatiere, is mandated to record, showcase and disseminate knowledge and practices associated with agriculture and food.
Quick Facts
-- $30,763 in funding, provided under the Collections Management component
of the Museums Assistance Program (MAP), will be used to refit reserve
spaces for the museum's collection of artifacts.
-- $15,000 in funding, provided under the Exhibition Circulation Fund of
the MAP, is being used to present the temporary exhibition La sante a
petites bouchees (Food for Health) from June 6 to October 12, 2014.
-- $8,515 in funding, provided under the MAP's Canada-France Agreement
component, will be invested in a mission to cooperate and exchange
professional services and expertise with a French museum.
Quotes
"Our Government is pleased to support organizations outside major urban centres like the Musee Francois-Pilote that help showcase and disseminate our shared heritage."
-The Honourable Shelly Glover, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages
"The Musee Francois-Pilote is grateful for funding from Canadian Heritage to help us continue revamping this institution, founded by Father Paul-Andre Leclerc in 1974, to make it Quebec's number one agriculture and food museum. The three projects announced today are concrete steps in the process begun in spring 2011."
-Luc St-Amand, Director, Musee Francois-Pilote
Associated Links
Musee Francois-Pilote (French only)
Museums Assistance Program
Collections Management component
Exhibition Circulation Fund component
Canada-France Agreement component
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